Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex

The very creative Dawn Eden sends along a YouTube version a video promoting a book that she has coming out in December, entitled The Thrill of the Chaste. For the video, she connects up with the Raving Theist to adapt a Dylan song and provide a very interesting message of purity in a world that seems to think that all things meaningful begin below the waist line.

Here are some publicity quotes:

“Why would a thirtysomething modern woman give up sex? At the heart of The Thrill of the Chaste is this mystery story which as it unfolds reveals our deep human longing for a love that matters, for a sexual union that is real. A brave, beautiful book.” - Maggie Gallagher, President, Institute for Marriage and nationally syndicated columnist

“Dawn Eden is part of a growing group of talented professionals who, having bought into our culture’s message about sex, found it wanting and searched for something better. Her life experience enables her to demonstrate with compelling, hard-earned wisdom why living chastely is, as the title suggests, ‘thrilling.’” - Christopher West, Theology of the Body Institute“

New York Daily News columnist and blogger [Dawn] Eden offers a Christian apologetic for premarital chastity, aimed at “marriage-minded single women who’d had enough of the Sex and the City lifestyle.” Eden herself is a convert to both Christianity and chastity, and now an unmarried 30-something, she’s persuaded that chastity is more “hope-filled” and “vibrant” than sex outside of marriage. She draws on John Paul II’s theology of the body to explain why Christians should reserve sex for marriage; “our bodies are living metaphors of God’s loving nature,” she argues, and to have sex casually is to make a false promise of total commitment…” [Full review] - Publishers Weekly

You can preorder Dawn’s new book here.